Originally Posted by Pladio
I started playing Defence of the Ancients 2 beta on Steam. It's quite a lot of fun. The only problem is my internet connections, which makes me lag quite a bit.

The community is vile in that game. I got a beta key, and played around a bit, and dear lord, I've never had so many bad players shout at me for not following them into their doom by rushing right into the enemy base at low levels in my entire life. The general acceptance of this kind of behavior in the community that has been built up around the game really made me not want to play it.

Originally Posted by purpleblob
Finally bought ME3… will install it this weekend and have it a go. Fingers crossed, I will enjoy it (except for the ending )

They have fixed the ending now though, have they not?

Originally Posted by Thrasher
Sorry to hear that Fnord. It seems like it could be a lot of fun otherwise.

Yea, the game itself is actually pretty good. Everything seemed to be well thought out and balanced, and they had also found some pretty good ways of making the game more approachable for beginners, without dumbing things down. Sadly, the community makes it nigh unplayable, unless you only play with people that you know.

Originally Posted by Fnord
The community is vile in that game. I got a beta key, and played around a bit, and dear lord, I've never had so many bad players shout at me for not following them into their doom by rushing right into the enemy base at low levels in my entire life. The general acceptance of this kind of behavior in the community that has been built up around the game really made me not want to play it.

Originally Posted by xSamhainx
Yeah, I have no desire to be part of a game like that. I'm a casual player, and that's the way I roll. It's why quit raiding. People got too fucking serious about the whole thing.

No computer games lately, been playing Labyrinth Lord on the tabletop, and Warhammer 40 K sixth edition. On the table top too, of course ='.'=

Black Templars 4 life

I agree some people are really ahitty, but I just put them on ignore and then play with the others. I've also discovered the bot play to be amazingly good and the only cheaty part to the bots is that they buy stuff too quickly. Gives them a little edge.

I'm also very bad.

We could play together if you wanted to at some point. You can create private lobbies/games … Maybe have a few RPGwatchers join. We could play together against bots or in separate teams with bots helping us…

Originally Posted by Thrasher
Sorry to hear that Fnord. It seems like it could be a lot of fun otherwise.

Yeah,I'm having a blast trying out new skills from different characters.

The only thing I find to be annoying me is that I seem to lag quite a bit, and I'm not sure if it's my internet connection or the server itself…

Originally Posted by DArtagnan
ME3 is a travesty, if you ask me. But for some reason, a lot of people seem to like it. Quite puzzling, since it's obviously half-assed and rushed in pretty much every way.

That said, the Torchlights are both very superficial - and unless you're a big fan of mindless hack&slash/upgrade/loot - you will be disappointed.

Is this the first time I actually agree with dartagnan?
Lemme check if blizzard is happening outside…

Well I have gotten deep into Mass Effect 1. My impressions are old news for most, I assume. I was getting tired of running back in forth in the Citadel on missions; VERY reminiscent of KotOR. Now that I'm exploring unknown systems I am enjoying it more. Although I am quite surprised how each mine / base location has the exact same layout except for contents. Why?

Running aorund on the Mako, I was expecting to be terribly frustrated based on what I heard. I am not. It's actually fun.

I imagine the number of systems to explore and the lack of variety will make this boring, but for now it's entertaining.

The conversation system isn't as bad as folks have said. Thank goodness you can spacebar skip through the tedious voiceacting though (I wish the same were possible for the ship jumps and mako landings). :/ It's sometimes unclear if you make a idiotic response or not. Have to reload every so often when that happens.

I am most surprised at the quality. There is a game killing bug in the casino that would jump my Shepard to the top of the world mesh, with the casino far below, and no ability to move. Some characters would disappear and requiring a reload. Also there are situations with companions that would not heal, or have poison effects that won't wear off. Finally, the hacking/lockpicking/survey/what have you minigame is terribly unresponsive, making it a chore.

Don't get me wrong. I am definitely enjoying the game but I can see how it could get boring if they don't throw more variety at the player.

BTW, how do you keep track of which systems you have visited? There's too many to remember on my memory alone.

Originally Posted by Thrasher
Running aorund on the Mako, I was expecting to be terribly frustrated based on what I heard. I am not. It's actually fun.

Trust me, by the end of the game you'll be cursing whoever designed that part of the gameplay. Just wait until you get to the planets that have you constantly going up and down mountains.

Originally Posted by Thrasher
I am most surprised at the quality. There is a game killing bug in the casino that would jump my Shepard to the top of the world mesh, with the casino far below, and no ability to move. Some characters would disappear and requiring a reload. Also there are situations with companions that would not heal, or have poison effects that won't wear off. Finally, the hacking/lockpicking/survey/what have you minigame is terribly unresponsive, making it a chore.

I can only assume those things differ depending on your system. I never encountered any of those bugs. The only thing I can recall happening to me in ME1 was sometimes getting knocked into part of the map that would get me stuck.

Originally Posted by Thrasher
BTW, how do you keep track of which systems you have visited? There's too many to remember on my memory alone.

Just zoom in on the planets in the system and see if they're labeled as "unexplored".

Originally Posted by DArtagnan
ME3 is a travesty, if you ask me. But for some reason, a lot of people seem to like it. Quite puzzling, since it's obviously half-assed and rushed in pretty much every way.

That said, the Torchlights are both very superficial - and unless you're a big fan of mindless hack&slash/upgrade/loot - you will be disappointed.

I've decided to hold off on ME3 for awhile longer. I'm still feeling a little burned out on that setting right now, and I'm hoping some more patches/DLC might still improve the game.

I wasn't planning to get Torchlight II, but I was ultimately swayed by all the "it's great!" talk by so many members here. Now that we have Dishonored being released tomorrow, I think I'm going to delay starting anything for now until I hear some trustworthy feedback about that title.

Originally Posted by JDR13
Trust me, by the end of the game you'll be cursing whoever designed that part of the gameplay. Just wait until you get to the planets that have you constantly going up and down mountains.

Yeah, I've been to one of those already. But that's been a small part of the experience.

Originally Posted by JDR13
Just zoom in on the planets in the system and see if they're labeled as "unexplored".

Huh? You can't zoom into planets until you are in their systems. I need to know where to go next from outside the system. Jumping to each system to check would be tedious indeed. And… I see no "unexplored" (or "explored") planet labels, even if I am in system.

Originally Posted by Thrasher
Huh? You can't zoom into planets until you are in their systems. I need to know where to go next from outside the system. Jumping to each system to check would be tedious indeed. And… I see no "unexplored" (or "explored") planet labels, even if I am in system.

Ok, I was thinking you could zoom in to any planet, but it only works the other way around. (You can zoom out to see the entire galaxy from a planet.) I thought a planet was listed as "unexplored" if you hadn't been to it yet. That's the way it is in ME2, and I thought I remembered the same for ME1.